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Have you earned your PubMed black belt?
It’s just about impossible to report on medical research without becoming intimately familiar with PubMed. But just because a reporter…
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Facts vs. opinions: Beware of false balance in your reporting
It is a journalist’s job to objectively and fairly represent the various perspectives on an issue, and it’s a journalist’s…
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Retraction Watch offers some transparency about transparency
In the years since its inception, Retraction Watch has documented hundreds of troubled scientific papers that were eventually retracted, as…
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Tip sheet includes lessons about reporting on pregnancy exposures
In the past several decades, an explosion of research has looked more closely at how exposure to certain substances during…
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Initiative aims to use browsing histories to improve Wikipedia health content
It’s well known that Google, Facebook and dozens of other companies mine the browsing histories of their users and use…
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Two press officers provide tips on getting the most from their peers
It seems at least a couple times a week I have to refrain from going to social media to mock…
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Are we nearing the end of traditional medical journal articles?
Lots of challenges have faced medical publishing as the Internet has evolved. From predatory journals to the rise of open…
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AHCJ award winner tells us how she created comprehensive piece on high U.S. drug prices
No other country in the world pays as much for drugs as the United States — not even other wealthy…
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Tip sheet offers overview of breast cancer screening and overdiagnosis issues
With the recent announcement of the American Cancer Society’s change in mammography and breast cancer screening guidelines, the question of…
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Be cautious about superlatives in cancer drug reporting
For much of modern medical history, the elusive holy grail of medical research has been a “cure for cancer.” Today,…